[mylife]

Politicians tend to be narcissistic.

Obama sure is.

I don’t see Romney in that light.
Half the reason folks on this thread are bitching is because he won’t stand up and yell “LOOK AT ME”!!

He strikes me as tough, but fair (a conservative curse)

Obama comes off as a self centered charlatan punk ass 3 card monte operator

[conservativefreak]

Half the reason folks on this thread are bitching is because he won’t stand up and yell “LOOK AT ME”!!

In fact Romney is implicitly stating "Look at me", "Look at me" leftists and center-leftists, I agree with the fact that government coercion is a form of compassion, see, look what I did in Massachusetts?

It's as if Lenin stated, "Look, I'm compassionate, I fight for the proleteriat, there will be no more evil capitalists exploiting the working class." Now, I'm not saying that Romney is a Leninist, but he implicitly accepts a watered down form of socialism, and then tries to ingratiate himself with those of a leftist bent.
,br> What Romney should do is use the emotionalism of the left against itself, state the obvious, "everybody wants good healthcare" but then segue into the fact the best way to get good healthcare is to not legislate quasi-socialist healthcare bureaucracy but by unleashing the power of the free market, transparency, property rights, etc., he can use the same model for education, etc and all the other topics leftists use to champion there cause. Leftists appeal to emotion a lot better than conservatives, and if Romney was smart he could use the emotionalism of the left against itself by pointing to history and the intellectual arguments of the right. Instead he seems to implicitly accept the moral matrix of the left.